Building habits
Habits are the unit Loggd is built around, because a habit is the part of a plan you can actually do today: one row you check off, one cell that fills on the grid.
This category covers the part that is hard. How long forming a habit really takes, and where the number you have heard came from. How to start something small enough that a bad week does not end it. How to anchor a new habit to one you already keep. What the cue, the routine and the reward are each doing, and how to change one of them on purpose. What to do the day after a miss, which is the day that decides most of it.
You will not find a ranking of habit tracker apps here. Which app to use is a question for the landing page, where Loggd can be plain about what it does and does not do. These posts are about the behaviour, and they hold up whether you track it in an app or on a wall calendar with a pen.
The habit loop: cue, routine, reward, and how to redesign each
Cue, routine, reward: what each part is doing, and what happens when you change exactly one of them.
9 Sept 202612 min read
How to stay consistent when motivation is gone
A smaller commitment on more days, and one rule for the morning after you miss.
9 Sept 202611 min read
Tiny habits and the two-minute rule: start smaller than feels reasonable
Shrink the habit until the version you would do at 11 pm on a bad day is the version you promised.
9 Sept 202611 min read
Habit stacking: anchor new habits to the ones you already keep
Attach the new habit to one you already keep, and spend your effort on picking an anchor that does not move.
9 Sept 202612 min read
Self-discipline is a system, not a personality trait
The people who look disciplined are not winning more fights with themselves, they are having fewer, and that is something you can arrange in advance.
9 Sept 202613 min read
How to build good habits: a system that survives a bad week
Seven steps, each with an example you can set up tonight, built around the bad week that usually ends things.
9 Sept 202613 min read
How long does it take to form a habit? Longer than 21 days, and that is fine
The honest answer runs from a couple of weeks to most of a year, and a single missed day barely moves it.
9 Sept 202612 min read